On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:10:28 AM MST mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:14 AM, John Harris
<johnmh(a)splentity.com>
wrote:
> Please consider the security aspect of this. This is a critical
> vulnerability.
> Please, don't make us look like the Linux Mint folks. If Workstation
> is to be
> a viable product, especially if it's going to be advertised
> prominently, as
> the primary download for Fedora, this needs to be fixed.
Can you point to any other major (serious) desktop Linux distro that
ships with a restrictive firewall configuration?
The main competitor of Fedora Workstation is Ubuntu. Ubuntu ships
without a firewall enabled and nobody considers this a critical
vulnerability. Now: why is that...?
If it is the case that Ubuntu doesn't ship with a firewall, which I cannot
possibly imagine being the case, but don't have the time nor the inclination
to check, that doesn't matter.
That one distro does something ridiculous doesn't mean that we should.
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John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com>
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